Keynote & Plenary Speakers

Prof. Vsevolod V. Koryanov,
The first deputy head of the department of Dynamics and Flight Control of Missiles and Space Vehicles
of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia

Vsevolod
Koryanov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy
Head of the Department "Dynamics and flight
control of missiles and space vihicles" of
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, was
born in the former Soviet Union in 1982. In 2006
finished the Moscow State Technical University,
faculty of "Special engineering", Department
"Ballistics and aerodynamics". In 2011 defended
his dissertation for the degree of candidate of
technical sciences. Since September 2011 he
works at the Department "Dynamics and flight
control of missiles and space vihicles" of
Bauman Moscow State Technical University in the
position of first deputy head of the department.
Vsevolod Koryanov has more than 25 published
scientific work. Spoke at the conference of the
International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in
2013 (Beijing), 2014 (Toronto) in 2015
(Jerusalem). The main scientific direction -
ballistics modeling and motion dynamics of space
and landers.

Together with Professor Kazakovtsev in 2011-2015
Vsevolod Koryanov was the executive in charge of
the joint grant №263255 within the European
Seventh Framework Programme "RITD - Re-entry:
inflatable technology development in Russian
collaboration".

Prof.Polyakova Marina
Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Russia

About Prof.Polyakova Marina: olyakova Marina was
born in Minsk, Buelorussia. After graduation
from mechanical and technology faculty of
Buelorussian politechnical institute in 1986 up
to this date she has been working in Nosov
Magnitogorsk state technical university at the
mechanical and metallurgical department nowadays
as assistant professor. Polyakova M. was awarded
PhD in Metal Forming in 1998. In 2008 Polyakova
Marina was awarded by the Commendation Diploma
of Ministry of education and science of the
Russian Federation. Since 2012 Polyakova M. is
the Honorary Employer of high professional
education of the Russian Federation.

Scientific activity of Polyakova M. is connected
with quality control in metallurgical
technological processes, qualimetry in hardware
production and peculiarities of production
quality formation in technologies of hardware
manufacture. She is also interested in creating
nanotechnologies based on combination different
types of deformation. She has got two patents of
the Russian Federation for an invention the
continuous method of carbon wire deformation
nanostructuring. Various hardware devices and
tools already applied for steel wire production
can be used to implement this method thus
simplifying its introduction to the current
industrial equipment.

Polyakova M. took part in many international
conferences and last year she was the section
chair at The Second International Conference on
Pure and Applied Mathematics (St.Petersburg, 20-21
July). As a result of scientific work Polyakova
M. wrote and published more than 75 papers among
them papers published in referred journals. She
is coauthor of three monographs about different
aspects of downstream metal production.

Kwang-Yong Kim received his
B.S. degree from Seoul National University in
1978, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1981 and 1987,
respectively. He is currently a Professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering of Inha
University, Incheon, Korea. Professor Kim is
also the current editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Fluid Machinery and
Systems, the associate editor of ASME Journal of
Fluids Engineering, and the chairman of the
Asian Fluid Machinery Committee. He served as
the editor-in-chief of the Transactions of
Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers and
president of Korean Society for Fluid Machinery.
He is also a fellow of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an associate
fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA).
He is interested in applications of the
numerical optimization techniques using various
surrogate models and computational fluid
dynamics to the designs of fluid machinery,
heat-transfer augmentation devices, micro heat
sinks, micro mixers, coolant channels in nuclear
reactors, etc. He has published 332
peer-reviewed journal papers, and presented more
than 500 papers at international/domestic
conferences.

Prof. Nikos A. Aspragathos
Robotics Group in Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece

Professor Nikos A.
Aspragathos leads the Robotics Group in
Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering
Department, University of Patras, Greece. His
main research interests are robotics,
intelligent motion planning and control for
static and mobile robots and for dextrous
manipulation of rigid and non-rigid objects,
human-robot interaction, metamorphic
manipulators, micro-manipulation,
knowledge-based mechatronics design, industrial
automation, and computer graphics.

He is member of the editorial board of the
Mechatronics Journal, ROBOTICA, Cogent
Engineering and ISRN Robotics as well as member
of scientific committees IFTOMM, TC Robotics and
Mechatronics and IFAC, TC4.3 Robotics, TC4.2
Mechatronic Systems and member of a considerable
number of conference committees. He is member of
Advisory Group for New Robotics Engineering Book
Series, ASME Press and served as reviewer for
about 40 Journals and more than 30 conferences
and jury and reviewer for national and
international proposals.

He was visiting professor in 5 universities and
institutes gave invited speeches in universities
and research institutes and served as external
PhD examiner. He published more than 80 journal
papers, more than 130 conference and about 10
book chapters. He was involved in research
projects funded by Greek and European Union
sources and in some of them was the leader.

"Safe and high performance Human-Robot
co-manipulation"

Abstract: The collaboration
of human with robots is based on the
complementarity of their abilities to perform
tasks that could not be performed if they work
separately. These capabilities will be presented
along with the main issues for safe and high
performance co-manipulation. A short survey of
the methodologies for the development of robot
controllers for human-robot cooperation and
relative application will be described.

The rest of this
presentation will be devoted to methods for the
identification of human intentions based on
force measurements, the detection of unintended
contacts and high performance stable physical
co-manipulation.

The detection of human
intention in co-manipulation of a bulky object
with a robot in an a priori unknown task
involving rotation and translation will be
presented. Supervised and unsupervised learning
with reference minimum jerk model and EMG
measurements were introduced to modify the
damping of the admittance controller for easy
manipulation of the robot by physical
interaction in translation and rotation of the
and-effector.

Methods for manipulator
performance constraints in Cartesian admittance
control for Human-Robot cooperation and
enhancement of the stability limits will be
presented along with a methodology for the
distinction of intended and unintended contacts
based on the force oscillation charateristics
will be presented in details.

Experimental results with
many subjects and comparison with alternative
approaches will be presented with demonstrative
videos and the speech will conclude with some
hints for future research in human-robot
collaboration.